Demi Moore files lawsuit against New Idea magazine
News
-Staff
By Staff
Melbourne
(ANI):
American
actress
Demi
Moore
has
filed
a
lawsuit
in
Melbourne
against
New
Idea
magazine
for
publishing
pictures
taken
at
a
star-studded
party
she
and
Madonna
had
organised.
The
party
took
place
on
February
24,
at
the
Los
Angeles
home
of
Madonna's
manager,
Guy
Oseary,
reports
News.com.au.
The
black
and
white
pictures
included
snaps
of
Moore,
daughter
Rumer
Willis,
Orlando
Bloom,
P
Diddy,
Amanda
De
Cadenet,
and
Cameron
Diaz.
Moore
claimed
in
a
statement
filed
with
the
Federal
Court
last
week
that
New
Idea
had
infringed
on
her
copyright
of
the
pictures
by
putting
them
on
the
cover
of
its
March
8
edition,
and
across
two
pages
inside
the
magazine.
The
actress
is
seeking
unspecified
damages
from
the
magazine''s
publisher
Pacific
Magazines,
owned
by
Channel
7,
and
has
asked
for
the
profits
the
company
reaped
from
the
shots.
In
the
claim,
Moore
also
stated
that
she
had
agreed
to
buy
the
photographs
from
party
organiser
Jeffrey
Best
during
a
conversation
on
the
day
of
the
party,
and
that
the
photographer
had
also
signed
a
pre-party
deal
to
hand
them
to
Best.
However,
it
was
not
revealed
in
the
statement
how
the
photographs
came
into
the
possession
of
New
Idea.
Kevin
Dorey,
from
Moore''s
Melbourne
solicitors
Marsh&Mayer,
declined
to
comment.
Pacific
Magazines
has
yet
to
file
a
defence.